Artificial Lift Performance Blog

Gas Lift Best Practices

Jan 12, 2021 11:01:01 AM / by ALP Team posted in more oil, digital oilfield, data driven decisions, lower costs, fewer failures, gas lift wells

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This blog was inspired by a posting by Jim Hall (retired Shell Gaslift SME) on LinkedInin 2020 where he shared his tally book-sized gas lift best practices. We’ve taken his ideas and given them a little bit of an update for modern technology and tools. We hope you find this useful. 

Gas lift is an appropriate and effective lift method for many well types, especially gassy wells. Robust and reliable, gas lift wells continue to produce — even when operating inefficientlyHowever, this also creates a huge opportunity if we can diagnose when a gas lift well is being operated sub-optimally then it gives us an opportunity to recover a missing wedge of production. You do not have to let lower production be the norm using these best practices you can improve the management of your gas lift wells and data to maximize your well production.

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Why do you need Total Production Optimization?

Nov 12, 2020 9:00:00 AM / by ALP Team posted in more oil, digital oilfield, data driven decisions, lower costs, fewer failures

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“True Production Optimization” optimizes well performance automatically, enabling accelerated speed and accuracy of decisions, reducing risk and releasing millions of dollars of untapped potential.  ALP’s industry leading Pump Checker® Software provides impartial, expert, automated artificial lift optimization for ESP and gas lift wells.

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In today’s oil & gas industry...only the low cost survive

Oct 2, 2020 12:00:00 PM / by ALP Team posted in more oil, digital oilfield, data driven decisions, lower costs

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When oil prices are low it’s more important than ever that we optimize the way our wells are produced. Learn how we can "double down" to ensure that our wells are produced efficiently at the lowest cost of operation.

 

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Gas Lift Optimization and Diagnosis - That Takes No Time!

Sep 17, 2020 1:00:00 PM / by Sandy Williams posted in more oil, data driven decisions, lower costs, gas lift wells

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Over the last few blogs we’ve talked a lot about the value of automated processing of realtime data in the oilfield. Today I’d like to ‘land the plane’ a little and make that more tangible for wells produced using gaslift…as well as make this a quick read.

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Too Busy to Look at Your Oil Wells? Know the Feeling?

Jul 24, 2020 4:38:28 PM / by Sandy Williams posted in more oil, lower costs

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Are meetings and emails taking up so much of your time that it’s hard to get down to the basics of production optimization - modeling your wells? In a recent mentoring session with an operator’s engineers, I had the engineers write down what they do on a daily basis. The answer shocked me:

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Thriving in a low oil price (or any) environment!

Jun 26, 2020 11:03:02 AM / by Sandy Williams posted in more oil, digital oilfield, data driven decisions, lower costs

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When oil prices are low it’s more important than ever that we optimize the way our wells are produced. How can we “double down” to ensure that our wells are produced efficiently at the lowest cost of operation? This article summarizes how you can do that now and for the long term.

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Which lift method - Gaslift or ESP?

Jun 5, 2020 4:04:56 PM / by Sandy Williams posted in more oil, lower costs, ESP wells

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This blog will discuss the questions that every unconventional operator wants to have answered, “which artificial lift method should I use?” and “when should I change lift method?”

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Extending electric submersible pump (ESP) runlife

May 14, 2020 12:41:09 PM / by Sandy Williams posted in more oil, ESP wells

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Would you like to increase ESP runlife? I think the answer for most operators would be a resounding ‘yes’, especially in a low oil price environment.

The goal with ESPs (or, for that matter, any other artificial lift method) is runlife extension.  Driving extended runlife significantly reduces artificial lift cost and Lease Operating Expense (LOE). This article will provide an overview of what we need to do differently to increase the runlife and reliability of ESPs.

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